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NEW YORK 

E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY 

681 FIFTH AVENUE 


Copyright, 1918, 

BY E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY 


All Rights Reserved 


DEC -9 i 9 1 8 


printed In the United States of Hmerlca 

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TO MARY 

(WHO OWNS BOTH THE TOYS AND THE AUTHOR) 


DUCKY DADDLES’ PARTY 


O NCE upon a time there was a little web-foot whose name was 
Ducky Daddies. 

He had been a good boy for such a very long time that his 
mother thought she would give him a party. 

A party seemed like the very nicest thing in the world to Ducky and 
he asked his mother so many questions about who was coming and what 
they would do and all the rest of it, that she wished she had made it a sur- 
prise party so that he wouldn’t have known anything about it beforehand. 

“Now, Ducky,” said his mother, “there is one thing you must remem- 
ber, you must be thoughtful and polite and play with all of your guests. 
Don’t play all the time with Sally Jane just because you are used to play- 
ing with her every day.” 

Ducky promised, and he really meant to keep his promise. 


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D UCKY was just three years old and Dinah the cook baked him a 
lovely cake. When it had cooled off after coming out of the oven 
she put three candles on the top, and hid it away on a high shelf 
in the closet. 

She wasn’t going to have little web-foot asking her a thousand ques- 
tions about the cake, and besides she wanted it to be a surprise. 


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T HE day of the party finally arrived and after Ducky was dressed in 
his best suit, his mother had to set him on a chair to keep him clean 
until the others came. 

When the door bell rang she said to him: “Now you may go,” and 
he almost flew down the stairs to meet the first guest, who was his best 
friend, little Sally Jane. 


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T HE next one to come was a great big policeman who frightened 
Ducky a little, so that he wanted to run and hide behind his 
mother. 

He had heard the boys talk about “getting arrested” and he thought 
that if you were where a policeman could see you, you might get ar- 
rested for doing the least little thing. 


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B UT this policeman held out his hand and spoke so kindly that 
Ducky was no longer afraid, and they soon got to be such good 
friends that Ducky played “Rich man, poor man, beggarman, thief” 
on the policeman’s coat buttons while waiting for more guests to come. 

It isn’t every little duck that dares do that! 


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N EXT to the policeman came two English Penny dolls who were 
quite without clothes, never having had any, but they did not seem 
to feel the cold in the least. 

These dolls were called Araminta and Arabella, and each had lost an 
arm in some accident, but they were just as jolly and cheerful as people 
who have been in accidents always are. 

Everybody wanted Araminta and Arabella to come to their parties be- 
cause they were lively and made so much fun. 


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W HO should arrive next but two funny Golliwogs who came from 
Scotland, where all the Golliwogs live. 

They used to live in a shop in Edinburgh, and sailed across 
the ocean before Ducky was hatched. 

Their names were Mac Donald and Mac Pherson, and each was called 
Mac for short. This made it very confusing because every time any one 
asked a question like “What time is it, Mac?” they both answered, and then 
you had to explain which Mac you meant. 


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B ETTY walked in next, looking very sweet in a new dress. She gave 
Ducky three birthday kisses “and one to grow on.” 

Ducky thought they were much nicer than the three spanks 
“and one to grow on” that his father gave him before breakfast that 
morning. 


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I T was quite a big party. The next time the door bell rang there were 
some Japanese ladies and two little boys. 

It was good they talked English so Ducky could understand 
them, but he thought it was very funny-sounding English. The only lan- 
guages he knew were English, Duck and “beginning French. ,, 


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R IGHT behind them came two tall dolls dressed like French fisher 
folk, one as Joan of Arc and another as an Italian peasant. 

Ducky thought they were the most wonderful of all. 


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W HEN all were there, Ducky asked very politely, “What shall we 

play?” 

“Let’s play ‘Farmer in the Dell,’ ” said Betty. 

“Let’s play ‘Blind Man’s Buff,’ ” cried Araminta and Arabella, who 
were good runners. 

Little Sammy and Joan and the Golliwogs wanted “Drop the Hand- 
kerchief,” so Ducky’s mother said, “Suppose you play all three, and begin 
with ‘Farmer in the Dell.’ ” 


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T HAT suited everybody, so they took hold of hands and made a cir- 
cle, choosing Betty for the farmer. You can see her standing 
right there in the middle while they went around and around sing- 
ing: 

“The farmer takes a wife, the farmer takes a wife, 

Heigho, the Cherry O, the farmer takes a wife.” 

And then 

“The wife takes a child,” 

And 

“The child takes a nurse,” 

And 

“The nurse takes a cat,” 

And 

“The cat takes a mouse,” 

And, last of all, 

“The mouse takes a cheese.” 

Betty chose Araminta for the wife, Araminta chose Ducky for the 
child, Ducky chose Joan for the nurse, Joan chose one of the Macs for the 
cat, he chose Sally Jane for the mouse and she took Kewpie for the cheese, 
and so on. 


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W HEN they were tired of “Farmer in the Dell” they played “Blind 
Man’s Buff.” 

Ducky was Blind Man first and you can see him blind- 
folded and the rest running to get out of his way. It was so much fun 
that you could hear them laugh and shout way down the road. But they 
got very hot and tired doing that, and were glad to change presently to a 
quieter game. 


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HIS was “Drop the Handkerchief.” 


They sang: 


“A tisket, a tasket, 

A green and yellow basket, 

I sent a letter to my love, 

And on the way I dropped it — 
Dropped it — dropped it.” 


You can see that Betty has dropped the handkerchief behind Sammy 
and he is running after her. 

“London Bridge” came next, and while the guests were playing that, 
Sally Jane and Ducky disappeared. 


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D UCKY wanted to show his friend, Sally, some new little pigs that 
had just come, so although his mother had said, “Now don’t play 
with Sally alone when you have a party,” he disobeyed her and 
slipped out of the room and ran to the barn, where they climbed down some 
long steps that led to the pen where the piggies lived. 


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O UTSIDE of the pig pen door they met one of the little pigs. 

“Hello, Piggy,” said Ducky, but it was afraid and ran away 
from him as fast as it could go. 

All it said was “Wee, wee, wee-e-e-e-e!” 


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D UCKY couldn’t imagine how he would get the door open for 
Sally to see the pigs, when along came a great Big Man who 
opened it for them. 

There were the pigs sound asleep in a little heap just inside the door! 
Sally thought they were so cunning she wanted to squeeze every one of 
them. 


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A ND then a dreadful thing happened! Old Mother Pig thought 
some one was going to hurt her babies and she came to the door 
^ making the most terrible noises you ever heard! 

“Oi, oi, oi,” said she in a deep angry voice, and was coming right out 
after Ducky, who trembled with fright, until the kind Big Man put his 
hand down and pushed her back into the pen. 

Then Ducky and Sally turned and ran towards the house as fast as 
their legs would carry them. 


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I AM very sorry to have to tell you that Ducky disobeyed his mother 
again and didn’t go right back to his guests as he should have done ! 
Sally wanted to see the baby, so Ducky took her upstairs and 
they tiptoed into the room where it was sleeping. 

This baby was visiting at Ducky’s house, and being too little to talk or 
play or do anything but eat and sleep, it was put to bed before the party 
began. 


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T HIS time Ducky was naughty in another way, for his mother had 
told him that no one must go into the baby’s room because the 
least noise would wake it up, but although Sally said she would be 
so quiet that she wouldn’t even breathe, Ducky couldn’t help feeling scared 
and uncomfortable. 


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T HEN — you can see for yourself what came next! 

That clumsy little Sally leaned too hard on the cradle and over 
it tipped, so far that the baby fell out! 

Their shrieks and screams brought Mother rushing upstairs. The 
baby was not hurt, fortunately, but was thoroughly frightened and stayed 
awake for a long time. 


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M OTHER punished the naughty children by making them stand in 
a corner for ten minutes so that they would remember to obey 
in the future. 

It was very hard to stand there and hear the fun going on downstairs, 
and they did hope that nobody would open the door and look at them, and 
cried and had to have their faces washed before they were fit to be seen 
again. 


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E VERYTHING comes to an end, and so did the punishment, which 
was soon forgotten when they all sat down to have ice cream, and 
Ducky’s birthday cake was brought in with the candles lighted. 
There were little hearts with green and pink and chocolate icing on 
them and two plates of ice cream for every one ! ! ! 

At five o’clock when the mothers came after the guests, all were sorry 
to go and thanked Ducky Daddies for the wonderful time they had had, 
wishing him “Many happy returns.” 


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W HEN Ducky’s mother tucked him in his little bed that night, 
and was ready to blow out the candle, he said, “Thank you for 
my party, Mother dear. It was a lovely party and I am never, 
never going to disobey you again.” 


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